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Years: 1742 1743 1744 1745 1746 - 1747 - 1748 1749 1750 1751 1752

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Ongoing events 3 Year in topic 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 Monarchs/Presidents

Events

• January 31 - The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Dock Hospital
• April 9 - The Scottish Jacobite Lord Lovat was beheaded on Tower Hill, London, for high treason; he was the last man to be executed in this way in Britain
• May 3 - Battle of Cape Finisterre in the War of the Austrian Succession
• July 2 - Battle of Lawfeld
• Emperor Momozono ascends to the throne of Japan, succeeding Emperor Sakuramachi
• Kandahar taken from Nadir Shah by Ahmad Shah Durrani, and becomes the first capital of the newly-independent Afghanistan
• Thomas Herring appointed Archbishop of Canterbury
• James Lind discovers that citrus fruits prevent scurvy
• Wearing of the kilt banned in Scotland by the Dress Act
• Samuel Johnson begins work on A Dictionary of the English Language

• War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748)

• 1747 in literature
• 1747 in science

• January 26 - Samuel Parr, English schoolmaster (died 1825)
• May 5 - Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1792)
• July 6 - John Paul Jones, American naval captain (died 1792)
• October 8 - Jean-François Rewbell, French politician
• Johann Elert Bode, German astronomer (died 1826)
• François Tourte, French musical instrument maker (died 1835)
• Anna Seward, English writer (died 1809)

• March 16 - Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia
• April 9 - Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat (born c.1667)
• October 10 - John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury (born c.1674)
• Nadir Shah, Persian leader
• Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman
• Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet
• Alain-René Le Sage, French novelist and playwright (born 1668)

• China - Qianlong Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (reigned from October 18, 1735 to February 9, 1796)
• France - Louis XV King of France (reigned from 1715 to 1774)
• Great Britain - George II King of Great Britain (reigned from June 11, 1727 to October 25, 1760)
• Kingdom of Prussia - Frederick II King of Prussia (reigned from 1740 to 1786)
• Russia - Elizabeth Empress of Russia (reigned from 1741 to January 5, 1762)
• Saxony - Frederick Augustus II Elector of Saxony (from 1733 to 1763) (also King of Poland)